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'''Alfred Rupert Sheldrake''' (born 28 June 1942) is an English author<ref name=TimAdams/> and [[parapsychology]] researcher<ref name=whitfield/> who proposed the concept of '''morphic resonance''', a conjecture which lacks mainstream acceptance and has been criticized as [[pseudoscience]].<ref name="Maddox 1981"/><ref name="CoyneTNR">{{cite
Sheldrake's morphic resonance posits that "memory is inherent in nature"<ref name=TimAdams/><ref name=presencepast/> and that "natural systems ... inherit a collective memory from all previous things of their kind."<ref name=presencepast/> Sheldrake proposes that it is also responsible for "telepathy-type interconnections between organisms."<ref name=bio2/><ref name=hood/> His advocacy of the idea offers idiosyncratic explanations of standard subjects in biology such as [[biological development|development]], [[biological inheritance|inheritance]], and memory.
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